Discussion Questions
1. The title implies that there are at
least two classes of women—those that men don't see and those they do—but
only one undifferentiated class of men. Are these judgments borne out by
the story?
2. What is the importance of being seen,
or, more precisely, being seen by men?
3. What strategies enable the Parsons to
live "in the chinks of your world-machine"?
4. What makes Esteban a suitable candidate
for fathering the next generation of Parsons?
5. The SF icon of the alien is typically
powerful, strange-looking, incomprehensible, and at least potentially dangerous.
How many of those characteristics can be applied to the actual aliens in
this story? To Ruth and Althea Parsons? To Don Fenton? |
